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Managing Mental Health Matters Email Series

SUMMARY: These email templates help you communicate to staff who interact with other employees to assign each of the video modules and set up times to discuss what they have learned. You can use the templates as is or easily modify to meet your needs.

Awareness of Mental Health at Work

They can help you put Managing Mental Health Matters on the calendars of your management team. Choose from email templates that provide:

An introduction to each module that you can forward to your management team.

Guidelines to help your team members complete each module online at their convenience.

An invitation to discuss what participants learned and how to apply it in your organization.

A sustainable, no-cost approach to support the development of your front line managers and supervisors can make your work easier.

A plan of action to help improve and address workplace issues more effectively.

A step-by-step approach to increase management education and awareness of workplace mental health issues, all while saving you time and effort.

Download the email templates; then review or modify as you wish and forward to your managers. Just click the boxes beside the email template groups that interest you below.

While we recommend you begin with the Introduction program module, you can choose whichever Managing Mental Health Matters module is most valuable to your team and start from there.

Introduction to the program series includes:

EMAIL 1: Indicates that a new episode of Managing Mental Health Matters will be distributed approximately every 12 weeks and asks the team to complete a pre-evaluation

EMAIL 2: For you to send out approximately one week after EMAIL 1 - Introduction to Managing Mental Health Matters and instruction that the first series will be sent out in approximately one week

Managing Emotions series includes:

EMAIL 1: Completion of the Managing Emotions Skills Assessment

EMAIL 2: For you to send out approximately one month after EMAIL 1 - Review of four skill areas

EMAIL 3: For you to send out approximately one month after EMAIL 2 - Meeting EMAIL to review the action plans and next steps with your team

Managing Accommodation series includes:

EMAIL 1: Review exercises and videos in Managing Accommodation

EMAIL 2: For you to send out approximately one month after EMAIL 1 - Meeting EMAIL to review the action plans and next steps with your team

Managing Performance series includes:

EMAIL 1: Review exercises and videos in Managing Performance

EMAIL 2: For you to send out approximately one month after EMAIL 1 - Completion of the Manager's Checklist

EMAIL 3: For you to send out approximately two weeks after EMAIL 2 - Meeting EMAIL to review the action plans and next steps with your team

Managing Conflict series includes:

EMAIL 1: Review exercises and videos in Managing Conflict

EMAIL 2: For you to send out approximately one month after EMAIL 1 - Meeting EMAIL to review the action plans and next steps with your team

Managing Return to Work series includes:

EMAIL 1: Review exercises and videos in Managing Return to Work

EMAIL 2: For you to send out approximately one month after EMAIL 1 - Meeting EMAIL to review action plans and next steps with your team

Final Evaluation and Wrap-Up series includes:

EMAIL 1: Evaluation of your team using the Test Your Knowledge assessment

EMAIL 2: For you to send out approximately one week after EMAIL 1 - Meeting EMAIL to review the Test Your Knowledge results and set future goals

With this training program, you can forward the emails with the rest of the resource available online, anytime, at no cost. Your management team can complete the module whenever they have Internet access. If time is tight, you can assign the modules and know that you will be providing quality learning opportunities. With even an hour each calendar quarter, you can use the Leader's Guide for Managing Mental Health Matters to facilitate a discussion about what was learned.

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Watch short video clips or read articles that can help you better understand the experience of mental health issues at work, as well as strategies to help you or others cope and thrive.

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